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Bart, with your depth of hoops knowledge, I find it hard to see you slam another sports rules. A person that works only vollwyball would see what we do on the hardwood a little strange as well. In fact, there are a few rules of vball I would like to see cross over, and vise versa
The reason we have the replay, is for situations just like you describe. When there is an error by the crew, interference by someone not in the game, or a sleeping line judge.
When you are up on the stand, it is impossible to see if some balls were in or out. With experinece you can make an educated call, or even over-rule a clueless line judge, but it is fair to go to the replay when there is no other alternative.
Granted, some great rallys get wiped out due to it, but not very often. In hoops, if your partner blows an inadvertant whistle, it is easy to give the ball back out of bounds. In volleyball there is no equivilent, so you have to do the replay, it is the only fair thing to do. You cannot penalize a team with an alternating point or side out due to a reffing error. It would be like giving free throws because we had no idea who hit the ball OOB's.
Also know that the rules committee does make changes. A few years ago a joust was an called a replay. Nowthat was a stupid, unfair rule, and they did change it.
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